The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-31

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E. Bowers, late County Treasurer of Wal
ton, from whom 1000 was recently stolen.
The people do not relish this much, but
think the money ought TO be forthcoming.
Fernandina wants a bank. With the
large quantities of commercial paper, ship
ping paper and local business, they have
use for capital of $4,000 or $1,000, and
the demand is growing more pressing daily.
A nice opportunity for some capitalist to do
a good business.
C. c.. Dishong, Of Hillsborough county,
while out hunting on last Friday evening,
was bitten by a four-foot rattlesnake. He
cut the bitten part out with his pocket knife
and walked to his camp, a mile distant, and
then applied poultice of soda and ammo
MIA and is now well and about.
Capt r. +. Fleming, of New Gainesville, is
the owner of COW that gives, says the
Gainesville Advocate, six gallons OF pure,
rich milk every day. He had the cow
shipped there from his place in South Caro-
lima. As a mich COW she is worth whole
herd Of our common Florida cows.
The steamer Alfalfa, thirty-one tons,
twin propeller, from New York, arrived at
Alfalfa on last Monday This staunch little
steamer is owned by Messrs Brophy & Gas
sin, of Peru, and will be run between that
place and Tampa. A vessel for the trade of
that Furnishing section has long been
needed.
j. S. Franz, one Of the party of fifteen
drummers who were refused passage on the
steamer Olivette from Key West last Satur
day on account of the yellow fever quaran-
tine, arrived at Seffner Thursday morning,
the party having chartered a schooner,
which brought them over and landed them
at some point between Punta Gorda and
Sara Sofa.
Editor T. K. Spencer, of the Tampa
Tribune, has been working himself into the
good graces of his neighbors this week by
presenting each with a small basket Of
Peen-to peaches. which were raised on his
place on Nebraska avenue The MORNING
NEWS architect of this column wishes he
were one Of the aforesaid neighbors.
A. l. Bidwell. of Orlando, has received re
turns from his first shipmento of six crates of
peaches. They brought him 81 per crate,
or about SIS per buShel net His peen-to's
are yielding but short crop, but the Bid
wells Early will give him about four bush
els to the tree. This shows that the cultiva-
ton of peaches in Florida can be made to
pay.
The festival held at Ybor City on Satur-
day night for the benefit of the Methodist
Episcopal Sunday school at that place was a
financial as well as a social success. The
occasion was a most enjoyable one, and
was largely attended by the citizens OF
Tampa as well as Ybor City. The net pro-
ceeds, which will be devoted to a most
laudable cause, amounted to SIS.
The Orlando Masons are preparing to
celebrate St. Johns day The committees
are now at work and from the present out
look the day will be observed with more i'm
posing ceremonies than has been the custom
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Sister lodges throughout the district will be
invited to visit Orlando on that day and
join in the exercises and observances.
Capt j. E. Lucas, of Palatka, has the
material on his dock for the construction of
an immense barge, designed to be used for
moonlight excursions and dancing on the
river. The barge will he 55x20 feet in size,
decked over with smooth floor, suitable
for dancing, and covered by a canopy. 1t
will be securely rallied in, so that there will
be no danger of falling overheard, and so
strongly built that it win be perfectly safe
in every respect.
A child was born in one of the suburbs of
Jacksonville Thursday night last that is one
of the most remarkable monstroSities ever
seen in that section of the Union. Its mouth
is on the point of its chin and is only large
enough to admit the point of a pencil, the
chin being considerably elongated. Its ears
are on the throat and touch each other, and
it is peculiarly deformed in other respects
1t lived about two hours after birth Dr. N
Webster has the body preserved in alcohol
at his Office in Brooklyn. lHi
]. V. Burke, of Bronson, has sold of the
Williams & Swami land during the past
week, some 81 900 acres to, q Michigan sy1l-
dictate. The purchase, IS in central Levy
county, and includes some of the finest tim
Der lands in Florida. The syndicate will
erect large mill, which will doubtless be
the finest and most extensive in the State,
in the course of few months, and will cut
lumber on a large scale. At the same time
they will set an immigration scheme on
foot to bring people from the Northwest to
occupy the lands they have purchased.
In fernando Circuit Court last week
Clarence Wells was indicted for mutilating
a horse owned by Mr.. Lands, and Casslus
NJ. Thomas for embezzlement i'll having,
while acting as Commissioner for fernando
county at the South Florida Fair, approw
priated to his own use the $3.50 premium
awarded to the county. Thomas claims that
he was personally entitled to the premium.
but the County Commissioners hold that he
is not, as he accepted the position of then.
agent, and as they paid upon presentation
his bill of expenses and allowed him 500
besides for his individual services
SO eagerly and recklessly do our bows sign
petitions which have been flying around
thick for the last few days, says the Fort
Meade Pioneer, that certain jovial young
chap presented a paper to them the other
day for some good cause and received thir-
ty-hve or forty signatures, before a man
was struck who thought to read the paper,
which he found addressed to the Congress of
the United States, charging Grover Cleve-
land with grand larceny, and asking them
to impeach him and have him prosecuted
and sent to the penitentiary for the offense.
1t ought to be sent to the Legislature as a
specimen of the good faith with which coun-
ty division petitions are signed.
The tenth annual commencement exercises
of the Duval High School, which Were to
have been held at the opera house, jackson
vile, will take place at the Ocean Street Pres
byterian church on Tuesday evening. June Z,
at s o'clock, standard time. The graduates
are ten in number. They will receive their
diplomas from Col. l.. l. Fleming, President,
of the Board Of Public Instruction, and will
be addressed by Senator Pasco, who has
consented to be present. The regular exam
nations in the high school begin Tuesday,
May 81, and will continue throughout the
week. The closing exercises at the gram
mar school, which is always an event of in
terest to the public, win take place on
Friday, June 3, in the assembly hall of the
grammar school building.
Leesburg Commercial. The largest sale of
made in this place this year was
that of the Panasoifkee orange grove owned
by MeSsrs j. c. and 4, II. Herndon and